And the holidays coming around the corner, all the gut-punching emotion with which they are fraught, that stinks too.Īt this point, I should let you know that you can’t read this yet.

Bernie’s sister Evelyn helped him get Bernie’s clothes packed up and moved out, but he can’t look at her car. Next thing we know, she’s been murdered.īut Jay Porter is still too caught up in his own personal situation to pay much attention at first. Not ever.Īnd so this sequel to Black Water Rising, the red-hot hit by this author, starts out ominously, as a vulnerable teen waiting at a bus stop wonders whether she should run from the car that is watching her, even though she is so far from home that she doesn’t know how to get back, or wait for that bus.

His self-hatred for the time spent away from his wife and two children during that final crisis has left him determined not to set foot in another court room. But now he wishes he had spent more time by his wife’s bedside and less in the courtroom. It was important to everyone that the families affected experienced justice. She pushed him to follow through on his enormous case against the oil company that had sickened, even killed people in their own close-knit, middle class African-American suburb outside Houston, Texas. His wife Bernie died young and fast due to an illness that she knew she had, but had chosen not to share. No, his issues have to do with family, and with grieving. Money is the least of his worries he is successful, and has won a very large case, though it hasn’t paid yet. Jay Porter has a full plate, and so his legal career has been set on cruise control.

Pleasantville a novel